Google Lens
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
1warn against
Nov 14, 2025first mention
Aug 8, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“the built in Google Lens tool is cool”
“the Google Lens tool is very handy and gets used often.”
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“Google Lens and ChatGPT could localize the majority of their test photos pretty specifically”
“I have been using google lens heavily to scan posters/flyers”
“just take a picture of the screen on your phone with Google Lens”
Caveats and dissent
“the artefacts confuse Lens and other image parsing systems”
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
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Data: google-lens.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 10
“the built in Google Lens tool is cool”
“the artefacts confuse Lens and other image parsing systems”
“the Google Lens tool is very handy and gets used often.”
“Google Lens and ChatGPT could localize the majority of their test photos pretty specifically”
“crude implementation of Google translate+Google lens”
“Google lens is exactly the kind of thing add-ons are for.”
“I have been using google lens heavily to scan posters/flyers”
“just take a picture of the screen on your phone with Google Lens”
“I use it several times a day”
“better translate, google lens”